>Ah, I've been waiting for the opportunity-- What does "http" mean?
>For that matter, do you also know what "URL" means? I've suddenly
>been seeing both terms popping up, but I can't find them in any
>of the 4 million Internet books/documents/etc. I have.
>Thanks for any help!!!
>Alice McCreary
>McCarter & English
>Cherry Hill, NJ
>amccreary@delphi.com
In World Wide Web documents, a Universal Resource Locator (URL) is the
linking information that points to other files/resources on the net. For
example, in my Lynx home page document, I have the following URL:
<a href="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/HTML_quick.html">HTML Quick
Reference</a>
(The above URL should all be on one line.)
The general form of a URL is:
scheme://host.domain[:port]/path/filename
Note that scheme can be "file" (pointing to a file on your local drive);
"http" (pointing to a file on a WWW server); "gopher" (pointing to a file
on a Gopher server); "WAIS" (a file on a WAIS server); or even "telnet"
(pointing to a telnet host).
Thus, HTTP (which stands for hypertext transfer protocol) is one of the
schemes that can be used by a WWW browser for retrieving remote
resources.
Hope this helps.
Eric Noble
Computer Services Coordinator
Hastings College of the Law
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